Wednesday, November 3, 2010
1:06 AM
Tidbits on GOP wave
Barring any changes in the Assembly's composition due to recounts, Dems will have their smallest caucus in the chamber since 1957.
According to unofficial returns, Republicans are expected to hold 60 seats in the next session, with 38 Dems and one independent in former Dem Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer of Manitowoc.
The GOP caucus has matched its numbers from the 2005-06 session, when it had a 60-39 majority.
Going into the election, Dems had a 51-46 majority with two independents.
The results mark the biggest swing in the chamber since the 1970 election, when Republicans went from a 52-48 majority to a 33-67 minority. (The Assembly went to 99 seats in 1973.)
Dem state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout has hung onto her seat, meaning Republicans will have a 19-14 majority in the Senate. That's the same margin by which they held the chamber at the beginning of the 2005 session.
It also will be the first all-GOP statehouse since the 1990s, when Tommy Thompson was guv.
-- By Staff
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